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Monday, August 15, 2005

In Case You Thought He Forgot

Xan posts, below, on Paul Krugman's Times article calling out our wartime-on-old-people president for his lies and deceptions regarding Social Security.

Yesterday, as we celebrated the most successful and important public program ever created in the US, many other folks no longer interested in the issue thought Bush's campaign against it was dead in the water and was pretty much over. But in Reuters' report this morning there's this:

"Social Security, the New Deal-era program credited with keeping millions of elderly people out of poverty, turned 70 on Sunday with Americans rallying around it and President George W. Bush as determined as ever to give it a makeover."

Deep in the bowels of Crawford, the Dauphin dozes, while waiting for his henchman to reconstruct the attack:

"Republican lawmakers have put off any action on Social Security until the fall.Bush has scaled back the number of his Social Security speeches as he tried to give room to House of Representatives Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas to work on a broad proposal to include such ideas as retirement savings incentives.Charlie Black, a Republican political strategist, said Bush's lower profile should not be mistaken for waning interest."I don't think he's lost any of his zeal for Social Security reform," Black said. "The action has sort of shifted to the Hill now and the Ways and Means Committee so we'll have to kind of see what they can come up with."

Be forewarned. This is a battle we can't afford to lose, because once changes are made, it will never be restored.